This Week in Milwaukee

Thursday, Oct. 14

Ray Manzarek/Roy Rogers Band @ Shank Hall, 8 p.m.

Of
all the surviving members of The Doors, keyboardist Ray Manzarek has
been the most eager to carry the band’s torch. Along with guitarist
Robby Krieger, he’s toured extensively behind The Doors’ repertoire
since 2002, and though Manzarek’s latest project pairs the keyboardist,
now 71, with a new collaborator, it doesn’t completely distance him from
The Doors’ songbook. With veteran slide guitarist Roy Rogers, a
longtime sideman to John Lee Hooker, Manzarek recorded the 2008
instrumental album Ballads Before the Rain, which contained original
compositions and some reworked versions of Doors songs like “Crystal
Ship.”

Friday, Oct. 15

Ludo w/ There For Tomorrow, The Graduate and Tommy & The High Pilots @ The Rave, 7 p.m.

St.
Louis pop-punks Ludo worked their way up from the bottom end of the
Warped Tour roster and into the arms of commercial alternative rock
playlists with the help of some major-label polish. Maroon 5 producer
Matt Wallace gave the band’s 2008 Island Records debut You’re Awful, I
Love You a modern-rock sheen befitting of a Killers album, and returned
for the group’s new Prepare the Preparations, a party-pop record that
lets the band’s adolescent imaginations run wild. That means heaps of
Fountains of Waynestyled quirk and songs about pirates, skeletons and
robot-fighting cyborgs, as well as a single about sex as it only exists
in the mind of a teenage boy, “Whipped Cream.”

After Bay View’s Paper Boat Boutique & Gallery shut down last year, co-owner Faythe Levine set Mural by Sofia Arnold up
a new gallery space in the back of the neighboring skateboard shop Sky
High. Through the end of the year, that gallery space will also serve as
a curated boutique much like the old Paper Boat, with an emphasis on
quirky, handcrafted goods like jewelry, books, stationery and, among the
rarer offerings, porcelain-gilded bullets and painted ceramic owls.
Also on display will be a site-specific mural painted by area artist
Sofia Arnold. Levine’s ‘Temporary Pop-Up Boutique’ marks its grand
opening Friday with extended hours in conjunction with Gallery Night.

Saturday, Oct. 16

Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax @ The Rave, 7 p.m.

While
many of the metal bands formed in the early ’80s eventually broke up or
became novelty acts, Slayer and Megadeth have lost little of their
vitality and relevance with age, and both acts continue to release new
records that serve their legacy well. Slayer’s latest album, 2009’s
serial-killer-themed World Painted Blood, is as strong a set as the
band’s released in a decade, and Megadeth’s latest, 2009’s Endgame,
holds its own among the band’s heaviest and most aggressive records.
Tonight these pioneering metal acts coheadline a bill supported by a
third member of the so-called “Big Four” of thrash metal:

Anthrax, perhaps the most overtly cartoonish of all the major thrash metal groups.

Lineup
changes and some forgettable late-period releases have tarnished
Anthrax’s legacy a bit, but recently the band received a boost when they
reunited with heyday vocalist Joey Belladonna.

The
Los Angeles band Early Man’s take on heavy metal can be described in
one word: traditional. Drawing from metal’s most tried-and-true
influences (Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Megadeth) and sticking to the
genre’s signature subject matter (death, in all its forms), the band
stood up for metal in its purist form at a time when metal’s most lauded
bands were more interested in reinventing the genre. That made them
instant heroes in metal circles. The group’s latest record is this
year’s Death Potion.

Sunday, Oct. 17

America’s Got Talent Live @ The Riverside Theater, 7:30 p.m.

Though
the show has never rivaled “American Idol” in the ratings, NBC’s Simon
Cowellcreated reality show “America’s Got Talent” has nonetheless been
one of the network’s most reliable summer performers, recently
completing its fifth season as the top-ranked show in its time slot.
Hosted by Jerry Springer, the “America’s Got Talent” tour spotlights
favorites from the show’s latest season, including its top five
finalists. Among them are opera singers Prince Poppycock and Jackie
Evancho, the blacklight performance group Fighting Gravity, and winner
Michael Grimm, a soul singer.

Wellness and the Arts @ Milwaukee Public Market, noon to 4:30 p.m.

InWellness,
a membership network of health-care clients and practitioners,
including those from both traditional and alternative medicine fields,
celebrates its launch with an afternoon of entertainment. Among the
musicians and dancers performing are Jahmes Finlayson, the
call-and-response drummer of the project One Drum, and Wisconsin Public
Radio “At Issue” host Ben Merens, who will speak about the healing
powers of “authentic listening” and will perform some original guitar
compositions. At 2 p.m., naturopathic doctor and music educator Jennette
Cable will speak about the program’s central theme, the relationship
between wellness and the arts.

Wednesday, Oct. 20

Bob Mould w/ Brandi Shearer @ Shank Hall, 8 p.m.

Bob
Mould was one of the most influential figures of ’80s underground rock,
thanks to his unabashedly melodic songwriting and guitar work with the
seminal punk group Husker Du, which helped lay the foundation for
alternative rock’s commercial breakout in the ’90s. Mould enjoyed some
of that success himself, scoring the moderate hit “If I Can’t Change
Your Mind” with his subsequent band Sugar, before beginning a flirtation
with electronic sounds on a long run of solo albums. Though the
electronica influence isn’t completely gone, Mould’s latest record,
2009’s Life and Times, is perhaps the purest pop-rock record he’s made
since disbanding Sugar. Expect more stripped-down renditions of some of
those new songs on Mould’s latest solo acoustic tour.

When
Jason Bonham, son of late Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, was asked
to replace his father at a one-off Zeppelin tribute concert in London in
2007, he was more than Bob Mould prepared for the task. He’d
been playing the Zeppelin songbook since his youth, then toured with
guitarist Jimmy Page in 1988 and released an album of Zeppelin covers in
1996. His latest project is yet another Zeppelin tribute: Jason
Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience, a cover group that performs to a
backdrop of video screens that tell the story of the band.

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